Equal opportunity initiatives and preventing exclusion
Openness to the future is among the key social values of the LOTOS brand, which is why we place a special
emphasis on projects promoting young people’s personal development, especially of the children and youth
living in the immediate vicinity of our production facilities.
‘Dobry Sąsiad’ (‘Good Neighbour’) Programme
We have developed a dedicated programme for the inhabitants of Grupa LOTOS’ neighbouring areas. Its
strategic objective is to ensure equal opportunities, prevent social exclusion, to activate and integrate the
local communities and to support the education of the youngest. As part of the programme, we:
Get involved in the life of local communities by organizing family events, sporting events, co-
financing summer and winter holidays for children ;
Support selected local government projects improving the quality of life of people residing in the
districts covered by the programme;
Develop local inhabitants’ understanding of our operations and assure them that the refinery has
state-of-the-art environmental security controls;
Tackle social inequalities by providing support to public benefit institutions;
Get involved in long-standing initiatives aimed at the inhabitants of Grupa LOTOS’ neighbouring
districts.
- Family picnics and sports events
In 2013, we organized the ‘Ekologiczny Dzień Dziecka’ (‘Ecological Children Day’) family event in the
Sobieszewo Island district, neighbouring our facility in Gdańsk. The ecological subject of the event was
connected with our ‘Chronimy NATURĘ na Wyspie Sobieszewskiej’ (‘Protect the Wildlife of the Sobieszewo
Island’) programme, run by Grupa LOTOS for several years in this part of Gdańsk. The event, which apart from
a number of games for the youngest participants also included educational activities about the areas of
outstanding natural value present in the district (the ‘Mewia Łacha’ and ‘Ptasi raj’ nature reserves), attracted
around a thousand participants. The festival took place on the premises of the Special Primary and Junior
High School Complex No.1 in Sobieszewo and its pupils were involved in the organizational activities. We
asked the adult participants to assess the event in a survey. Their opinions concerning the venue, the
programme of the event and its organization, as well as the quality of the service, overall satisfaction and
quality of the gifts distributed were all at the top of the scale (99% of respondents).
85% of the respondents said Grupa LOTOS was taking care of the immediate surroundings,
and 83% of the people asked felt the event met their social needs and expectations.
As for the sport and recreational initiatives, we were involved in the ‘Bieg Wyspy Sobieszewskiej im.
Wincentego Pola’ (‘Sobieszewo Island Wincenty Pol Run’), which was organized in the vicinity of the Grupa
LOTOS refinery. This half-marathon attracted more than 400 competitors, who followed an untypical route,
through a forest, a beach and along a recreational path for runners, cyclists and ramblers, which was prepared
under our cooperation with ‘Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Wyspy Sobieszewskiej’ (‘The Association of
Sobieszewo Island Lovers’) – the organizer of the half-marathon and administrator of the path.
- The Open Day at Grupa LOTOS
In August 2013, we organized an ‘Open Day’, the purpose of which was to allow organized groups
accompanied by guides, the Company’s employees, who talked about the installations and processes
employed by the refinery, and protections strictly observed by it and answered queries, to go on a
sightseeing bus-tour of the refinery’s premises, which are not generally accessible to the public.
the municipalities lying within the sphere of influence of LOTOS Terminale and LOTOS Infrastruktura. It was
first implemented in -asāo, in 1998.
In the 20132014 school year, we distributed a total of 14,000 road safety reflectors and the
same number of educational packages to primary school first-year pupils of the Gdańsk
Province, and of the Counties of -asāo and Bielsko-Biaāa. In total, we have distributed 100,000
road safety reflectors and 80,000 educational packages over the course of the last 8 years.
- The ‘Free Reflectors’ competition was devised for first-grade pupils, particularly those participating in the
‘LOTOS – Safe -ourney to School’ programme. Its overall aim is to remind and warn children about road traffic
risks and to help them get into the habit of wearing reflective accessories, which reduces the likelihood of
accidents. The competition is open to schoolchildren of the Gdańsk Province and the Counties of Bielsko-Biaāa
and -asāo. Its partners make joint efforts to encourage parents, carers and teachers to equip children with
reflective accessories. The competition is held in the summer semester and the finale takes place in -une, just
before the end of the school year and the beginning of the holidays. Each participating school selects and
submits up to ten pieces of art by their children. From among all the entries, the three best works are selected
in each region. First-place winners are awarded bicycles with safety enhancing accessories. Additionally, the
schools of the winners are awarded mini road-sign kits and bicycles with safety enhancing accessories.
Second-place winners receive roller blade sets with accessories, while third-place winners receive educational
game sets.
In 2013, a total of 712 pieces of art from 124 schools were submitted as part of the ‘Free
Reflectors’ competition. First prizes were awarded to the pupils of Dr Leon +eyke Primary
School No. 2 in KoĘcierzyna (Gdańsk Province), the Primary School No. 26 in Bielsko-Biaāa
(County of Bielsko-Biaāa) and the Community Primary School in Lipnica Dolna, Commune of
Brzyska (County of -asāo). Between 2010-2013, a total of more than 2,000 students took part
in the contest.
- The ‘On the Way to a Driving Licence’ project, of which we are a partner, is run in cooperation with the
Road Traffic Department of the Gdańsk Province Police +eadquarters. It is aimed at promoting the rules of
safe behaviour on the road among students of secondary schools, thus preventing accidents involving young
drivers. The project focused on meetings with students of selected junior high schools. These meetings
involved lectures on the rules of road safety, delivered by a police officer, as well as lectures on first aid and
the medical consequences of road accidents, delivered by a medical rescue expert. The theoretical part was
followed by a practical one, which was aimed at increasing the participants’ awareness of safe behaviour on
the road both as pedestrians and future drivers. The main emphasis was placed on such risks as speeding,
reckless driving, and not wearing seat belts.
In 2012-2013, the ‘On the Way to a Driving Licence’ project, was attended by 600 junior high
school students in Gdańsk.
- Grupa LOTOS is also a partner of the ‘On the Road to Safety’ programme run by the Governor of the
Gdańsk Province. This initiative is aimed at selecting the best original road safety programmes completed in
the Pomerania region in the given school year. The competition participants include local government
institutions, central government institutions, NGOs and associations. The prize is the co-funding for the
winning projects. b
In 2013, two joint first prizes were awarded to the Special Purpose School and Education Centre in Puck and
the ‘Safe Region of Sāupsk’ Association. The -unior +igh School in ĸukowo was awarded an honorable
distinction.
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